River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-01-27
NEWS AND NOTES.

I
this year. The usual m&neuvers win
be dispensed with.
New York Socialists are raising mon
ey to be used in the approaching
elections in Germany for members of
the Reichstag.
model Of lolanthe, beautifully executed
IN butter attracted so much attention
at the Centennial Exposition, Is now Il
sculptor with studio in New York
City
Late dispatches confirm the reports of
the loss of life resulting from a panic At
an entertainment given in a I.on,ion
theatre by the Hebrew Dramatic Climb
/ Seventeen persons We're tramplcd To
death in the rush 10 escape.
The Comtesse de Paris did wonder.
with her gun during her STAY at Rag
lev. Her Royal Highness bagged no
less than thirty-iive brace of pheasantS.
/ to the establishment and admiration of
Lord Hartford gamekeepers
After spending two seasons nj the
White sulphur Spring DR. Talmage'S
daughter Edith has become engaged 10
a Southerner, Mr.. Allen DOMAIN OF
Richmond, and her marriage is cN-
! pected to take place next March.
The Liberal and Irish Nationalist
Clubs of London are arranging To hold
a great public meeting 10 express IN
dignation at the inhumanity shown in
the recent eyictionS on the Winn estates
At Glenbegh, County Kerry Ireland
Meyer Kaufman. Il merchant of 81
4 Louis, claims 10 have been arrested on
/ a recent trip to Cuba immediately after
/ his arrival at Havana, and To have been
subjected to various indignitieS. he
will ask the United States To demand
$4,000 damages from Spain.
Herr Windthorst. who has Just beaten
/ Prince Bismarck, has been the leader
of the German Centre for many wears.
Prince Bismarck and Herr Windthor-t
are the best of good friends socially.
On the occasion of the Princes recel,-
| tons Herr WtndthorSt is usually placed
ut his right hand.
Boston Globe: II is about time To
/ throttle the coal mCnopolistS Ii half
dozen men. striving To have their
scanty wages raised, combine il Is CON
spiracy. Why not, when half a dozen
coal millionaire sharks combine To
make people pay cNtortionate price, for
fuel or freeze?
\ new form of railway seat spring
has beeu devised in England. and /,
/ highly spoken of. The entire seat
carried on coiled spring of pecu ia
form, and i free TO move in all di &C.
tions, so that every jerk and oscilla an
which the car can receive Is peri, tiy
taken up.
Mrs. Langtry has told friend in
New York that she is engaged ia toe
married to Freddie Goddard ami thar
| rs soon a she obtains her divorce the
ceremony viii bc celebrated. The
Lily business is rather poor this
season. and the advertising mill must
be accelerated somehow
The statue Of Queen Victoria. " hirh
| Is to be erected at Windsor. will r,-
present her Majesty clad in her royal
robes, wearing "A small crown and lace
veil, and her insignia of the Garier.aud
holding in her right hand sccptrc and
in her left an orb. II viii be- of bronze,
OH a pedestal Of polished red granite.
Mrs Anna Lea Merritt. whose Eve
was called by the London Times 1.-The
finest picture by a woman in the
Academy, and whose portraits of
James Russell Lowell and Oliver Wen
dell Holmes are highly commend. Is
about to visit this her native country.
and to have an exhibition of her works
in New York.
Jules Verne, who was shot IN his
crazy nephew, Is almost wholly re
covered. The famous novelist i about
| 80 years of age, his hair is turning
white, and his once supple and elegant
figure is beginning TO give way Ia "a
comfortable rotundity. but his inlcll-
gent face Is still full of youthful ardor.
He has his own yacht and spend, much
of his time AT sea
Mr.. Joseph W. Drexel, who has re-
tired from business and lives comfort
| ably on his accumulated fortune in
New York, began life on a salary Of 81
a week. He spent 10 cents Of his first
week ; earnings for a box Of water col
/ ors, and now in later years exercise,
the same early taste for pictures a. an
accomplished amateur Photographic.
In the United States there are 2.26g
breweries, which produce annually
400, $50. 400 gallons or over : gallons
per head. In Germany here are b.
$40 breweries. which produce an
nually 900.000.0O0 gallons. or over -
gallons per head In Great Britain,
there are 26.2l4 brewerics. which pro
nee annually l,Oj0000, 900 gallons.
or over 30 gallons per head.
The first hospital for women and
children ia Scotland. oilicercd by
medical women, was opened last wear
in Edinburg by the Lord Provost of
the city, under the charge of DR. Jcx
Blake. Miss Urquhart. l.. and /. NJ,
X. Q. c. p. L., has recently been
appointed house surgeon to the hospital.
to which diSpensary Is also attached.